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Morphological and morphometric data on the axial skeleton of the little skate, Leucoraja erinacea
CT scans of adult little skates (Leucoraja erinacea). These scans consist of series of tiff images that can be imported into CT segmenting software to reconstruct their shape in three dimensions. Supplemental files include CT scanning parameters, landmark coordinates for each vertebra in each skate, up to vertebra 70, as well as an R script with code for analysing vertebral shape using morphometrics and segmented linear regression tests. Computed tomography scans of three adult little skates were obtained in order to quantitatively study vertebral column morphology and regionalization. The skate fins were removed to facilitate shipping to our scanning facility, and so the scans include only the head, gill basket, and axial column. The specimens are now housed in the University of Cambridge Museum of Zoology (specimen identification numbers 2021.50.1, 20201.50.2, and 2021.50.3). Full details about this nonGeographicDataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/9d7810c7-92af-47b2-81ec-365aafc39691
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- Date (Publication)
- 2021-11-29
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/9d7810c7-92af-47b2-81ec-365aafc39691
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- doi: / 10.5285/9d7810c7-92af-47b2-81ec-365aafc39691
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Criswell, K.E., Head, J.J., Gillis, J.A. (2021). Morphological and morphometric data on the axial skeleton of the little skate, Leucoraja erinacea. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/9d7810c7-92af-47b2-81ec-365aafc39691
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role University of Cambridge
Criswell, K.E. Author University of Cambridge
Head, J.J. Author University of Cambridge
Gillis, J.A. Author University of Cambridge
Criswell, K.E.
Point of contact University of Cambridge
Owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian
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GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3
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- Biodiversity
- Evolutionary ecology
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Chondrichthyan
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Little skate
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Criswell, K.E., Head, J.J., Gillis, J.A. (2021). Morphological and morphometric data on the axial skeleton of the little skate, Leucoraja erinacea. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/9d7810c7-92af-47b2-81ec-365aafc39691
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- English
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- UTF8
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- Biota
- Begin date
- 2019-06-01
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- 2019-07-01
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Name Version TIFF
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/9d7810c7-92af-47b2-81ec-365aafc39691 Download the data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/9d7810c7-92af-47b2-81ec-365aafc39691.zip Supporting information
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- Non geographic dataset
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nonGeographicDataset
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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- 2010-12-08
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The skates were collected by the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, USA, in the waters off the Massachusetts coast in the summer of 2019. The specimens were fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde for one week, rinsed in water, and stored in 70% ethanol. Computed tomography scans were obtained at the Cambridge Biotomography Centre by Keturah Smithson, a trained CT technician, using a Nikon XTEK H 225 ST MicroCT scanner. Post-processing to optimise CT reconstructions and minimise scan artefacts was performed in Nikon’s CT-Pro program, and scan reslicing was performed using VG STUDIOMAX (Volume Graphics).
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- 9d7810c7-92af-47b2-81ec-365aafc39691 XML
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- English
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- 8859 Part 1
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- Non geographic dataset
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- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13T16:19:49
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- UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
